Putin critic Alexey Navalny's team fear he's been moved to a Russian prison known as the "torture conveyor belt"
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The dissident's team says the fear is "not only that the high-security colony is much scarier," but that Navalny remains locked away in a "system that has already tried to kill him."
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Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny has been transferred from the penal colony where he was serving his term to a higher security prison facility, his lawyer told CNN Tuesday.
By Anna Chernova and Karen Smith, CNN Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny has been transferred from the penal colony where he was serving his term to a higher security prison facility. The jailed politician was relocated to a maximum-security prison in Melekhovo in the Vladimir Region, accordin…
Navalny's lawyer went to visit him in prison, but was told by guards that "there is no such convict here." Russian authorities have not said where they have taken the opposition leader.
Allies of imprisoned opposition politician Alexei Navalny sounded the alarm on Tuesday, saying the Kremlin critic has been moved from the prison where he was serving his time and they do not know where he is now.
Alexei Navalny, a Russian opposition leader and critic of President Vladimir Putin, reportedly has been transferred to a new penal colony farther east of Moscow.
"There is no law there," Alexei Navalny's spokeswoman said about the prison. "And that's where Putin wants to put Navalny for not being afraid of him and telling the truth."
Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said Wednesday he had been transferred to a strict-regime penal colony described by his allies as “one of Russia’s scariest prisons”.
The dissident's team says the fear is "not only that the high-security colony is much scarier," but that Navalny remains locked away in a "system that has already tried to kill him."
